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International Harvester, Warrenville (USA)

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Firmaet grundlagt: 1902

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Internetadresse: www.

Firmaets postadresse: International Harvester, Warrenville, Illinois, USA 

Navistar (formerly International Harvester) started in Chicago, United States, which produced agricultural machinery, construction equipment and vehicles. It was the result of a 1902 merger between the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms: Milwaukee; Plano; and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner (manufacturers of Champion brand). International Harvester changed their corporate name to Navistar International Corporation in 1986.

The first major product from International Harvester was the Titan 10-20 and 15-30 tractor. Introduced in 1915, the tractors were primarily used as traction engines to pull large plows and for belt work on threshing machines. In 1924, International Harvester introduced the Farmall tractor, a smaller general-purpose tractor, to fend off competition from the Ford Motor Company's Fordson tractors. The Farmall was the first tractor in the United States to incorporate a tricycle-like design (or row-crop front axle), which could be used on tall crops such as cotton and corn.

In addition to its line of farm equipment, International Harvester produced plows, construction equipment, household appliances, M1 Garand military rifles, jet engines, trucks and school bus chassis

Current headquarters are in Warrenville, Illinois

School and commercial bus chassis

Although based upon truck chassis, IHC also became the leading manufacturer of the chassis portion of body-on-chassis conventional (type C) school buses. IHC successor IC Corporation is the 21st century market leader in both types C & D school bus production in the United States as of 2006.

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